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Etosha Cave

Co-founder, Chief Science Officer, Twelve

Dr. Etosha Cave is co-founder and CSO of Twelve, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era that is making everyday products from air, not oil. Etosha earned a B.S. in engineering from Franklin W. Olin College as a member of the first class. She subsequently worked at the McMurdo StaGon in AntarcGca, where she tested a spectroscopy system that was being designed for a NASA Rover mission. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Etosha is an Accel InnovaGon Scholar, an Echoing Green Fellow, and a Smithsonian InsGtuGon Innovator to Watch. Twelve was supported in their seed stage by AcGvate with an entrepreneurial fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley NaGonal Laboratory and by Elemental Excelerator.